The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A call of £2 per share has been made on the shares of the Central Argentine Railway Company, for the lines from Rosario to Cordova, to be paid for on the let proximo; and a similar amount will be required on the Ist December next. The half-yearly drawing of Turkish Six per Cents., 1863, took place on the 2d inst. at Paris, and the particulars may be seen at the offices of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter were 66f. 65c. Firm. The Stock Exchange markets this morning pre sent an improving tendency, and speculators appear once more disposed to close their "bear" accounts and operate for a rise in prices. Accordingly, all descriptions of stock are buoyant, and affairs exhi bit a more favourable aspect. The Funds have recovered 4 per cent., Consols being 90Z- 91k for money, and 901 lex div. for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 881 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s, to 4s. dis.; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 t. There is more animation in the Foreign Market, and prices have generally improved. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71; ditto Consolidits, 601 1; Mexican, 43a I ; do., New Loan, 1 die., prem. ; Greek, 22 1 1; Spanish Passive, 34 341 ; Portu guese, 48 ; Swedish Scrip, par, 1 prem. ; Russian Scrip, 11 I prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, 661 67. Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather inactive, but prices have in most instances exhibited more firmness. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain with. out material alteration. The following are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—Provincial Banking Corporation, t 1* prem.; International Land Credit, 1* 2 prem. ; Telegraph Construction, 1 prem. ; Sabloniere Hotel, * 1 prem. ; North Australian Company, * 1f prem. ; Imperial Bank of China, 1 prem. ; City Offices, *d prem. ; and Millwall Iron Works, 4 I prem. BRITISH ]FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOYDRNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced . BBl f New 3 p er Cent. 1 New .2i per Cent. Jan.. 1891 — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Ai.nuities, 30 yrs, exp ire .sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, exp ire sth April, 1885..-- Ditto (Red Sea Teh graph), Aug. 1908. Mach. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2! & 3 per Cent. 20 9 4 Ditto £SC 0 Dint> £101) and £2OO Lank England Stk, 5± per Ct. Ditto Account ..... .k .. INDIAN GOTRRNMI INT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Ci int., April 1874 — Ditto 5 per Cent. .1 alp, 1670 Ditto Account..... Ditto 4 per Cent., 0 ct. 1888 Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., J an. 1872 — Ditto 51 per Cent., Hay, 1879 .. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto 66 Ditto Bonds £1 Aug.,, ,000. Ditto under £l,OOO. FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE, O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 p er Cent.. .... . Ditto 4i per Cent., 1..852-58-60 Egyptian 7 per Cent... Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 182 4-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account Ditto Account -- Ditto, 1839 and 185' ) ... Italian 5 per C en t. (M ai • emmana Railwa . Mexican 3 p er C ent . ~. y) — Ditto Account..... Moorish I mper i al 5 pe r Cent Ditto 2 per C en t .. Ditto Deferred — Ditto Land Warren' :s (Hectares) Peruvian 41 per Cent — Ditto Account..... 4......... Ditto 4 Ditto 3 per Cent. (' U r ib arren) -_1 per Cent.„ 1862 ...... — Ditto Account.... Portuguese 3 per Cei A~ 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1 856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 , '3 Ditto Account4B Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid — PM Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St Ditto 4i per Cent.. 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent ] .859 • Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 p er C ent .. Bsf 85/ Ditto Account... Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account . .................. Ditto New Deferi .ed DDitto Account... Diitto Passive tto Account... Spanish Cert. of C. nip not funded Ditto Account... , • 11/ Swedish, 4 per Con . .... I‘nrkish 6 per Cent • Ditto Account.. • 18 54 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1868 Ditto Account .• .. Ditto Account ................... 7oi Ditto £lOO Boy As. Ditto 1863 Ditto Guarautet id, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per C.'fint. Ditto Account ... •• _ — Ditto 6 per Cele' ;,, 1862 Ditto Account. Ditto 6 per Ce nt, 1864 • . — Ditto Scrip, S 1 6 paid.... ............ 5 die Ditto 11 per Ce zit .......... ......... Dividends o n th e abo ye • payable in Loud .0 Au strian, 5 pe r ri T:A -- ent.. .10 Florin s . Belgian 41 per C ent., Fa. 25f Dutch 21 per Cent;., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent„ 1 861, .Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account. 671 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money . Ditto Accotrat....-... ............. . .. .. 8 9 91 :1 4 d Liverpool Cottoa Market —This Days -.—_______ Verb• full ricer. Sales about 10,000 bales. Ina , party, 3,379 ; pre vionsly, 4,386. LOItD liouonroN will take the chair at the inau gural dinner o f th e newspaper press fund, at the Freemasons' Tav ern on th e 21et last, to be held The discount market is now assuming a quieter appearance, although no change can be noted in the quotations. The mercantile classes have very generally over supplied themselves with accom modation, and with the less demand for money now experienced, capitalists are beginning to evince a disposition to work at the Bank of Eng land minimum. The large number of bills, how ever, that have as yet been brought forward have been charged 9 to 92 per cent. About £82,000 in gold was taken into the Bank on Saturday, but 100,000 sovereigns Were with drawn for transmission to the Brazils. The Star of Tasmania from New Zealand has brought £83,240. The condition of trade in the manufacturing dis tricts during the past week has b een exceed i ngly active. At Manchester, however, the market for cloths has been slightly affected by the increase in the rate of discount, but at Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Leicester, and Bradford, a large inquiry prevailed for all descriptions of goods. At Bir mingham and Sheffield great buoyancy has been noticed, manufacturers having received large orders both from the country and abroad. A special meeting of shareholders of the Bank of London was held to-day for the purpose of increas ing the capital by the additional SAM of £200,000, which is to be divided into 2,000 shares of £lO each. Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., who occupied the chair, moved the adoption of the necessary resolu tions, and observed that while other kindred insti tutions had progressed the Bank of London had exhibited still greater advancement. The direc tors had always been actuated by a policy to secure the confidence of the public, while at the same time promoting the interests of the shareholders. The amount expected to be realised by the premium on the new shares would represent £140,000, which, added to the reserve fund, would raise that item to an amount as to preclude the necessity of increasing it out of the ordinary earnings every year. The resolutions were agreed to nem. con., and the thanks of the meeting voted to the directors. bEARE 'his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOIIS. Share) Railways. i pa , d.; Closing Business Price. done. - , , 1 13 . 1 4. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 /14 at Blythe and Tyne. IA) Bost.,Sleat.,andlilid.eo all 8 4 9 at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian 10 Do Ai A —. 100 1174 1184 50 Cora and B an d on all 20 Cornwall a l l 6 7 gets no div ) all _ 10 D o. B , till6p e.p an.liasli all been paid to I'. r .:ciblirt & Belfast June. all 35 37 25 !Dun.,Perth&Ab. June. all 16 17 :st !Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 88 90 at 'Glasg. and S. Western. 100 101 106 st iGreatE?stern, Ord. stk 100 464 7 46; I at 1 Ditto A. stook st 1 Ditto East Ang,lian st 100 64 75 st iGreatNorthot Scotland 100 st Great Northern.. ..... at I Do A stock lOO 115 136 at I Do Bdo at Gt. S. an,i W. of Irelatio 100 91 93 at Great Western .... . . at Do Str Val gua. stock 100 at Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 IC9 1094 1091 st London and Biackwali 100 •64 66 65 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 100 101 101 at Lon., Chat., aad Dover 100 39 41 395 405 st Lon. & North Western 100 1(82 1094 1095 4 at Lon. & Soy.th Western 100 965 94 97 50 st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 53 24 Maryport and Carlisle. all -- 125 Do 5 shares.. , all at Metropolt tan all 110 111 111 125 st Midland Do New at, Do Binning. & Derby 100 100 102 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 5 shares 25 Mid Kent .... all 10 Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 245 256 at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 995 1005 1004 25 Do, G.N.E. purohaSe 16.13.4 d st Do Leeds lOO 555 665 655 at Do York at Do Carlisle lOO at North London 10 Do New . ... 5 15 26 p .16.4 North Sta ff ord s hi re 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 104 114 st Scottish Ceutral at Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 39 40 at Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 10 Shrews, and Welchpool all st Shropshire Union st south Devon .. ...... 100 33 35 at South Eastern at Soilin Wales at 3. York. and River Dun 100 104 107 ! 0 Staines, Wok.,andWok. all 75 84 15, Stockton & Darlington all 965 375 05 Do . 17 95 10 e I 5 Do New, 1866 lO 8 85 p at Taff Vale. ... 100 165 170 10 Do B 8 5 7 t 0 Do C 3 3 4 p ;0 Ulster ;5 Do .10 Do it Vale of Neath It Victoria sta. and Pim, lOO t Waterford & Kilkenny 100 t West Cornwall lOO t W. Hartlepool Har.&ll l OO - t West Midland -Oxford ' 100 t Do Newport! 100' —-- t Do Hereford' 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS 'h arc IUo t- Rallwayb Paid. all atlantic & St Lawrenc: Bora.,Barodaa.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New ....... Do. E. Shares Buffalo and Lame Huron Do. Preference Builalo,Brant,aGodrich 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. Jutn , I, 18; Cleutta.aS.Eastn. (Lin) Cape Town &Dock Seri( Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. f East Indian. gu. 5 p. Do. do. G Ex• Do. do. H d o. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist PM . B on d s Do. deferred Do. 'td Pref. Bonds.. D J. do. deferred...... .Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...—. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.o Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 1882 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per oent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .. ... . ... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. a. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. a. .. Do. 11 p. o. Extension Dc. 4* d 0........ Da Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. c. Bnds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. ?dor tg. Bds. Newßr va3swiok Canda Class A and 8.. N.ltl.C'daB pc let f bdsi Solids ......... Do. Delhi 014 4 Do. Do. Punjaub Do. Do. .... •• •. ap Do. Indua • St. Flo.) 71 all Ail 100 , 00 I too too stock 4teck steck 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 et•Jok stock stock Stook I no tioo COLONIAL GOVERNME Closing Price. 58 SO 104 1031 1 6id I p 0 8i 9i 77 82 77 88 77 82 100 102 98 100 103 105 102 i 1031 t 20 20i P 70 12 60 62 60 64 51 63 48 50 40 42 25 27 23 26 102 103 101 103 10 10i 101 10 1; 94 95 84 86 1011 1021 94 96 90 94 cau.G or. 6 p.o.J 1877-81 - Do. p. c. Feb. & Aug. j Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape Ci.llope, 8 p 0,1873 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c Ilauritius 6 per cent .. ,Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. -. IN.B.Gov. 6 p.o. J a.&July Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N . S.W. Gov. 5 p 1.,18ut Do. sp. c.,18/1 to 137 t Do. d0.,1888 & upw d s New Zealand 6 p cent. 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875. !Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. I S. Aus G8p.c.1878.& up.. - Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 'Do. to 6 D.o. An.&o6t.. 100 100 100 100 100 58 60 S 5 82 84 102 103 101 102 P IP 100 102 93 95 101 f T SECURITIES, 103 105 162 !04 102 104 90 82 89 91 106 108 107 109 ICB 110 110 112 105 107 106 108 186 108 102 104 991 1001 99 101 99 to 1 loa 111 1011 2 [O4 106 10 112 O 7 } 103 1031 4 99 1 i I 107 i i BRITISH MINES. 2 i Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 Id • lksliflord Amalgamated.. 32 34 Devon 0. Cone. (Tavist , 1 550 660 East Bassett(lllogan) 30 07 70 Mast Clogau G o ld Ltd. East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 281 291 East Cara Brea.... . . 3.1. 0 65 7 W'l Russel (Tavi s tk . ) 8 . 13 .0 31 45 Liam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen., 581 7 9 Great South Tolgus 17s 25 35 G. Wheal Vor (11.elston 40 31 33 Grenville 6.16. a 91 91 tiercAl's-Foot . 8.12 48 40 ingston Downs 4.i8.0 31 4 Lady Bertha 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ' 21 15 New &tun 199 85 95 • North Downs l N - .W IO I liasset(lllo;an, 3.1.0 14 25 North Wheal Crotty I l'ar Consols (St. Blaze), 2) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 41 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer 15 450 170 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) — `Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 40 50 Stray l Park .. ... . Lunar Silv.& Lead Min — I - rin Cron .. . . .... . 18 19 W est Basset (Illogan) 1 5 1 9 10 FV Cr radon (Liskeard) l6 18 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 90 05 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 10 30 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - - WhealLudeott 3.5.8 2 21 Wheal Mary Ann ;:den.) 8 , 111 121 Wheal Beton 58 ' I 200 24 24 205 Wheal Tretawney (Li s. ) 7 '4 Wheal Union 3.17 2 25 PREFF :dENCE SHARES. Midland. Leicester a'l,d Hitchin 4 per ct.. 93 North Staffordshir e. 22 F OREIGN RAILWAYS. San Antwerp an'',L Rotterdam. 91 Paulo aim.), tea. 7 per cent., DIVA) (all), 19} Co'dre Copper,l34 i FOREIGN DINT ES. BANKS. Alliance (Urn.), 59 8 61 Ditto, new, 49 Anglo Austrian, 61 I Australasia, Ditto, new, 47 Bank of London, 176 Bank of New Zealand, 11 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 12 1 British and American Exchange (lim.), 33 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 11# Consolidated Bank, aim,, 11 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 144 Imperial Bank (lim.), 39 Imperial Ottoman, 201 # Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 51 London and Brazilian (aim.), 564 London and Couuty, 611 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, Jim., 181 London Joint Stock, 45 London and South-Western, 25 Mercantile and Exchange, lint, 191 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 29 I National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 411 Ditto, ditto, 331 Oriental Bank Corr oration, 661 61 South E -.ster n Scinde, Punjab, P:nS Delhi, lim., 11 , , I Union of Ire ' aim., 201 Union of 3 i.ondon, 55j 41a MISCELLANEOUS. C C C o et i m Y n °( l e n i r e ° C e i a r as PlUiaranniY.o:nslflinsuranCe, 81 Contract uorporation lira. 41 sgeomuhntaCnodrpaotrtas t t i r o ai t 8 . d.....FenitiauTii. d R aim,, 1 Fin ancial Corpora\tion: si Egyptian o tree loirL"oendon, Jim, 9; Gen. Credit Hudson'P, Bay, iq Indian. Carrying, InfrArnational Financial Society, lim , 10 f 10# J'oint Stock Discount, Land Securities, Jim., Jim., 7 gia7k; 41 5 * 4 London Financial Association, lim., 261 London General Omnibus Company, 21 National Discount Company, Ih n , , 13 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lim., 2} 4 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 856 The Patric and the Constitutionnel hive recently made great fun of the war articles of our ministerial con temporaries, the Paine exclaiming, a night or two since, after quoting the Post, " Here is England marching again —in the columns of a newspaper. How many campaigns of the kind have not our worthy neighbours carried on for Some time past." Business dons 0.1&4 12.10 1031 2 Si THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was by no means active. Holders, however, were firm, and previous quotations were well supported. The trade for spring corn and lour was quiet, on former terms. L On the Continent the corn trade continues dull ; and at New York, with a very limited export inquiry, both wheat and lour have considerably declined in value. The arrivals of English grain up to our markets last week were moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 6,496 quarters of wheat, 2,337 barley, 15,685 oats, 855 beans, 1,574 peas, 513 tares, 5,805 linseed. 7,730 oilseeds, 600 sundry seeds, 485 sacks, and 12,423 barrels of flour. Compared with Monday last there was a considerable fa/ling off in the show of samples of English wheat on the stands to-day; but the condition of the produce was tole rably good. The trade opened with firmness, both Kent and Essex qualities being held at an advance of is per quarter. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 36s to 91s Ditto, old —s —s Ditto, white, 1863 9ls 46s Ditto, old —s —s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 22s 25s Malting 24s 37s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 66s Chevalier 66s 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 23s Potato Youg - hal and Cork, black lss 23s Cork, white l6s 23s Scotch, Feeding l9s 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey . ... 285 3 s Maple 3ls 34s White ..• 33s 368 Boilers 33s 36s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and Norfolk 27s 29s American, per barrel ... 19s 25s been large, and, notwithstanding the advance in the Ban' hl rate of discount to nine per cent,, the biddings for all de scriptions have ruled active, at the full prices current at the close of last sales. Continental buyers have also been in good attendance, and these have made somewhat exten sive purchases, at very full prices. The private contract market is very moderately supplied with English wool, and and the trade is very firm. Buyers, however, appear dis posed, in consequence of the shortness of the supply as well as of the high price of money, to limit their transactions to the supply of their immediate wants. Current prices of English wool per lb. Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 llt to 2 01 Halt-bred do Kent fleeces South Down ewes & wethers 1 9 110 Leicester do. Sorts—Clothing 1 6 110 Combing . TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, and prices are 9d per cwt. higher than on Monday last. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s per cwt. on the spot; and town tallow at 388 9d nett cash. Rough fat is selling at 2s 2d pa Sibs. Particulars. Stock this clay.... Price of Y.C. .. Delivery last week Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town—. The Armstrong and Whitworth Trial, The competition for supremacy between these field-guns has now lasted a month, each week of which has given varying results with regard to excellency, though none of them of such a conclusive kind as would warrant even the most experienced in pronouncing an opinion as to the ulti mate success of either. We say "either," for though three guns are in the field—the Armstrong shunt-gun, the Armstrong breech-loader, and the Whitworth—yet the varying equality of the competition we hays spoken of must be understood to refer only to the performances of the shunt-gun and the Whitworth, The breech-loader is a good gun, and most especially is it good in its shell practice, a missile which it was only made to fire, But, beyond its shell practice, it is deficient in a thousand minor points, not much, perhaps, when stated singly, but formidable in the aggregate to either Sir William's shunt-gun or the hexagon of Mr. Whitworth. Out of this country, where the science of artiller), practice is carried to a pitch of perfection which is apparently, to judge from the make of their ordnance, not even attempted by other nations, the breech-loader would no doubt be thought a perfect weapon. But, side by side with such severe standards of excellence as Sir William's shunt gun and Mr. Whit worth's hexagon, what were before thought to be minor imperfections are now, with stern jus tice, measured as radical defects, and it is not too much to say that the breech-loader is looked upon by all virtually out of the contest. It now turns only on the comparative merits of the shunt and the Whitworth. Thus, then, whatever may be the result of the trials as regards the supremacy of the Armstrong shunt-gun or the Whitworth, the competi tion has not been made in vain. Alt eady the country has gained an immense advantage by the incontestable proof thus affisided that the gun with which our batteries in the field are now armed is not the best that can be got. Such an all-important isa.th is well worth a little cost and trouble to elicit, and we know asew beyond all doubt that, whatever may be the result of Mr. I.c s tiitworth's claims, Sir William Armstrong himself has in the s i ‘sunt gun invented a very much fitter piece of ordnance than that on which our troops are now depending in the use of the bressch-loader. The literal market value of such a result can scarcely be over estimated. It now, therefore, only remains to is() proved which of the two conquerors of the breech-loader, the Arm strong shunt-gun or the Whitworth, is the better piece, aid whenever this result is definitively ascertained the country may rest content in the assurance that they possess an artil lery which, until it is copied, will be without an equal in the world. In the present state of this competition we cannot venture on even a surmise as to which of the two will prove the victor; but we can say confidently that the time is fast approaching when the most momentous question at issue between the two ordnance—that of endurance—will be decided one way or the other. Nine hundred and ninety-two rounds have already been fired from each gun, and each now gives the signs of wear which may or may not be developed into alarming weakness at any moment.:3lore than this, in the absence of strictly reliable information, and with the intense party feeling which prevails among the supporters of each gun at Shoebury, it would be unwise to say. We must add, however, that both Sir William and Mr. Whitworth disre gard these defects as comparatively trivial, and that, on the other hand, the committee did not quite agree in this opin ion, or, at all events, as a prudent measure, have determined after the thousandth round, which will be fired to-day, to treat them as unproved guns and fire them with a long lan yard while the gunners are under shelter, The mere fact of such precautions being taken is an evidence of the begin ning of the end—an end which would terminate the whole controversy if it took place with the big guns, but which we must be careful not to regard as final with these small ones. The principle of strength, rifling, and construction which answers for a large gun will, as a mathematical certainty, answer for a small one, but as an almost invariable rule what does for a small gun will not do for a large one. The great question, therefore, of destructiveness, length of range, accuracy, and endurance will be tested quite irrespective of the results of these field-pieces. It will be the trials of the large guns which will form the court of final appeal. As far as they have yet been gone through, the trials embrace almost every kind of performance which could be exacted from a gun in active service, with very many which the utmost exigencies of a rough campaign would rarely call forth. For range at various degrees of elevation the tests have proceeded up to ten degrees, at which Mr. Whitworth's gun threw its shot on an average 350 yards further than the shunt. This may seem a trifling differ ence at 4,000 yards, or nearly twe and a half miles—a range at which an engagement with such light guns would be quite impossible. It must not, however, be forgotten that if at two miles and a half there is an advantage to Mr, Whitworth of 350 yards, at 20 degrees elevation, or four miles' range, his superiority would amount to nearly half a mile of increased range, and increased range as re gards the shot is greater penetration and more direct flight, which is, in other words, a lower trajectory or flatter curve as it drops from the muzzle of the gun to the earth. As a set-off against this we must bear in mind that Sir William's shunt gun has been found to be sighted too low and Mr. Whitworth's too high; and, though the difference is far too minute to affect the results at 4,000 yards, it might make a material change in the question of flat trajectory at 400. In fact, from the tests made of initial velocity, or the speed at which the shots leave the gun's muzzle, it has been proved that the actual velocity is higher with Sir 'William's shunt gun than with Mr. Whitworth's. At 800 yards, however, Mr. Whitworth's shot is close upon Sir William's, and at 1,000 or 1,100 yards is, no doubt, equal with it in rapidity. We only mention this fact of initial velocity to show that on the question of flat traje Stories Sir William's shunt gun has a flatter trajectory up to 1,109 yards than Mr. Whit worth's. But flat trajectories, or, to speak in plain Eng lish, low lines of flight of shot from the gun's muzzle, are only valuable at low angles of the gun itself—that is, when its muzzle is not much elevated, and the shot therefore ranges throughout thegreater part of its course across a field at about the height of a man. At high elevation of the gun, when a great range has to be reached, and the diffe rence between a high and a low tranjeetory is a difference of 100 or 200 yards above the ground, the low trajectory that passes at 100 yards is in practice as valueless as the high trajectory which passes at 200, for in both cases the shots are not more noisy and quite as harmless as the idle wind. 8 ..: at low elevations of the gun a low trajectory is valuable ftt f in practt and is a result which all scientific gunners and i strive hard to obtain, for, as a rule which inventors a guns,' est trajectory at all ranges is the truest gun—that is, never varies, the lON. - h is the gun that sends its shot longest in the straightest line. The test of initial velocity proves that Sir 'William's shunt-gun has the lowest trajec tory up to 1,000 yards, and the increased range gained by Mr Whitworth at 4,000 yards proves that h.I keeps not the lowest throughout, but a low trajectory for thelo,7 l sest time. Last week trials were made at stockades, very similar in their power of resistance to the " pahs" in New Zealand. These trials proved nothing worthy of recording, If meant to show that men under cover of the stockade could be killed, the targets were placed much too close to the 15 inches of green elm which formed the stockade to display the effect of the shell on bursting inside them. If it was meant to destroy the stockade, the charges with which the shells were fired were much to large, as they all passed through before burst ing. The whole trial was, in short, one which had evidently been discovered among the red-tape archives relating to the tests of smooth-bore artillery, for as a test of rifled ordnance it was almost worthless. The charges of powder were either very much too great for such obstacles, or the ob stacles themselves were very much too great. The most mterestieg trial was made with targets representing regi ments of intently in quarter-distance column. Each gun, the shunt, the breech-loader, and the Whitworth, had a series of targets to itself. These targets were of 2-inch deal, and for each gun preeented a front of 54 feet wide, and behind each front liLe of 54 feet were placed five similiar targets, at intervals of 15 feet apart. They were, in fact, placed for each gun so a.' to present exactly the same formation in width and depth of a regiment of pin fantry, moving, as they almost always do .raove; . from Thecant to point, when in action in quarter-distance 61° targets, however, were nine feet high instead of five, as a regiment at 450 yards; which was the range for the - uns to practice at, would have appeared to artillerymen. The firing was expected to be made with case shot; but Mr Whitworth preferred either percussion or time shell, for rea sons which we shall presently endeavour to explain. The practice with all the guns was good, except in the case of the breech-loader, for the shortcomings of which very plau sible reasons were given as to wrong sighting, with which, however, we have nothing to do, merely confining our re cords to results accomplished. Both the Armatrongs .fired with segment shell and con cussion fuses; the Whitworth with shrapnel shell and time fuses. On each series of targets the following results were produced wtth five rounds from the three guns. With the Armstrong shunt-gun there were through the six tar gets, from first to last, 591 distinct perforations :and 682 places in which either fragments of the shells had lodged or deeply indented the wood, making 1,273 marks in all. With the Armstrong breech-loader there were 333 perfora tions and 368 places in which the fragments had either struck or lodged, making 706 marks in all. With the Whit. worth there were 524 perforations and 132 places in which either the shrapnel bullets had struck or lodged, making 656 marks in all. In addition to these marks Sir William had opposite the targets opposed to his shunt-gun three ragged holes—one 10 inches by 9 inches, one 14 inches by 12 inches, and one 15 inches by 5, so that in destructive effeot the victory of the Armstrong shunt is here so pre eminent as to require no further comment. On Friday morning last the same trials were continued with the same targets to find the number of men which each gun would kill in five rounds—the result to be ascertained after the firing was over by forming up soldiers in line in front of each target s and then counting the perforations only which had been made its the wood behind every man. This test gave the shunt-gun. a total of 108 mon killed, to the breech loader's 118 men killed, and to the Whitworth 89 men killed, In this case, also, very plausible reasons are alleged to account for the Whitworth shells killing in theory fewer than the other, but we can ;no more enter into these excuses than Sir William's explanations why Whitworth beats him in range, or why his breech loader shot badly at the trial we have mentioned. These tests, we have said, ought to have - b een made with case shot, but Mr. Whitworth did not wis h to use it, tend in preferred his time-fuzee shells. Case sh ot is a cylinder filled with musket balls, and stoppe breaks d at each end with a wooden wad. This cylinder instantly on ground. A coroner's inquest held at Waterford lately re minds us of negro life in a Slave State. A man named Keown was found dead on the road in the townland of Grange on Thursday morning. The body was divested of coat, hat, and necktie, and discoloured under each ear. The coat was found in the house of Mr. Penrose, a gentleman of means, near whose residence the body was found: It ap peared that the deceased, a man about 60, had been in the service of that gentleman and slept in the house, which he had left at 1 o'clock on the night his death. Under these circumstances the consta bulary arrested Mr. Penrose, pending the coroner's inquiry, on suspicion of having murdered his ser vant. The first witness examined was his sister, Miss M, M. Penrose, who stated that she never heard her brother threaten deceased, and that he could not have gone out on the night in question without her knowledge. She had known servants to run away on ono :.4r two similar occasions to keep out of the way. Another witness, Mary Ann O'Brien, a servant in the house of Mr. Penrose, told the following story—Her master came home about 11 on Wednesday night a little ender the in fluence of drink. He neither saw her nor the man servant, but threatened to take their lives. Witness left the gate, not wishing to be in his way, as Le had several times struck her. Keown and she then hid under the tree. Mr. Penrose had let out the dog, and the deceased bid his companion hide, or the dog would find them out. They soon after left the tree and concealed themselves in the coalhole, where they remained for two hours. Witness then took courage, and •rept out to Miss Penrose, who said she would leave the house and had written about lodgings. Witness then called Larry (the deceased), and said all was right as Mr. Penrose had gone to bed. Bat hearing his voice " very cross" she ran out at 1 o'clock. He came down and said he would take her life. She ran, and he followed her to the road gate. She heard him say that Larry was past his labour, and he would take both their lives as they were no use. He had attacked her three months ago and struck her very severely, and also nine months before. When he was in liquor he often struck Larry. He knocked him down t w i ce by striking him on the side of the head severely, and grasped his throat. Mr. Penrose seemed to " have a great wish for Larry," though he struck bin. in a passion. Larry had taken off his coat and necktie because he was afraid his master would " choke him with the handkerchief. He did so several times." Mr. Penrose was never cross when he was sober. He came home under the influence of drink two or three times a week. He was not always violent. Mr. Penrose was exa minen, and stated that he came home late on Wed nesday evening, having taken some liquor during the day ; he did not strike Larry that night, but he asked him about a dog and " called out he was nu use." He also scolded the cook about leaving th e kitchen door open. He did not notice where de ceased went. Dr. Carroll, who had m ade. a post mortem examination, deposed that th ere were no marks of wounds or contusions or violence on the body. There was fatty degeueration of the hea r t , and the lungs were conges ted ; Theainaorlycl highly congested and full ofcabuiosoe t e se undue or extraor dinary the heart was sufficient t o dh.e death. Ti v he dailsseoa aost man was not able to bear excitement. The Coroner, Mr. Dalahunty, Eymmed up, and the jury found that deceased " died by the visitation of God." Mr. Penrose was discharged. Two Austrian men-of-war left Brest on Saturday for the North to join the Austrian squadron. kPLEASANT !--" Colonel," said Butler, " should the chances of war throw me into your hands, what would you do with me ?" " I should execute you upon the spot." "Is this purpose entertained generally by the officers of your army ?" " Yes, and by the privates too." " Sir, I thank you for your candour." " Sir, you are entirely welcome to it." METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of foreign beasts on offer in market to-day ; but the number of foreign sheep was only moderate. Sales progressed slowly on rather lower terms. _ _ The arrivals of beasts put up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably exten sive. English breeds came to hand in but middling condi tion, but the stock from Scotland was very prime. The receipts from Ire!and were limited. For all breeds the demand was heavy, at a decline in the quotations compared with Monday last, of 2d per Blbs, and a total clearance was not effected. The best Scots and crosses sold at from 4s to 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Carabridgshire we received 2,300 crosses; from other parts of England 800 various breeds; from Scotland 431 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 120 oxen and heifers. We were but moderately supplied with sheep, but their general quality was good, The mutton trade ruled firm at fully last week's currency. :Downs, out of the wool, pro duced 6s per 81bs. The few woolled sheep on offer sold readily at high prices, the top figura being 6s 4d per Blbs. Lambs were in fair supply and steady request, at late rates—viz., from 6s 4d to 7s 4d per 81bs. About 600 came to hand from the Isle of Wight. Calves moved off slowly on former terms, The top price was 58 4d per 81bs, We have to report a dull quotations. inquiry for pigs, at last week's ink the offal. The total imports of foreign atom into London, last week, amounted to ,807 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 6,lol—in 1862, 1,537—in 1861, 5,306 —in 1860, b,9s9—in 1859, 2,487—in 1858, 2,581 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAsl WRRIE. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam 689 .. 294 ~ 28 .. 465 .. 356 Harlingen 740 .. 114 .. 16 .. -- Hamburg 166 .. 3231 .. .. 308 Amsterdam .. Boulogne... Bremen; 77 .. Dordt.. 8 Of Nieu Diep Antwerp .. 05tend......... 74 .. Calais — Oporto Dunkirk 6O .. • e lie -- -- 4 -- .. -- .. -- •• 175 .. 69 .. 1 .. - •. -- .. 7 .. 2 .. 2 .. 23 .. •• .. -- 80 .. 384 Total .... 1694 .. 3896 .. 99 .. 612 ..1606 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 903 ~ 4,468 .. 265 .. 477 .. 48 1862 .. 128 .. 953 .. 79 .. 277 .. 100 1861 498 .. 4,207 .. 210 .. 206 .. 185 1860 1859 227 .. 2,048 .. 37 .. 189 .. 1858 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, May 11, 1863, and this day Monday, May, 9, 1864. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. May 11, 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Second quality do Prime large oxen .. 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &o 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. .. 4 0 4 2 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 4 4 6 Prime Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves .. 310 4 4 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 Beasts Sheep and lambs Cal ves .. 149 Pigs.. 370 SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 12, 1862,—8 sheep and lambs, 24 , 680 —calves, 126—piga, MAT 13, 1861,—Beast:4 4,4 Bo—sheep, 2 111—pigo, 360. May 9, 1864. 3 2to 3 6 38 4 0 42 4 4 46 4 8 3 6 310 40 4 4 46 4 8 410 6 0 4 7 4 4 5 0 2 5 4 6 4 0 2 4 6 5,270 25,820 209 480 oasts, 4,030- 430. ~980—calves, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are moderately supplied with moat to-day. In most descriptions a fair average business is doing, at our Per 81b. by the carcase. tied [nferiorbeef .. 2 tl 8 3 0 Middling do. 3 2 3 6 Prime larr:d do. 3 8 3 10 Do. email do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 0 3 10 Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10 d s 6 Middling mutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Veal. Small pork .. 4 0 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Our market is very moderately supplied with English hops, For good and fine parcels there is a moderate inquiry, at full prices ; otherwise, the trade is dull, and the quota tions have a downward tendency. Last week's import was —5O bales from New York, 114 from Boston, and 19 from Hamburg. Mid and East Rents £5 Os to £9 10s per cwt. Weald of Konts 6 Os to 7 7s „ Sussex 4 15s to 6 15 8 „ Yearlings 3 Os to 5 Os „ Bavarian 5 6s to 8 8s „ Belgian American ..... , BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of home grown potatoes to these markets continue on an extensive scale, but the general quality is by no means satisfactory. Good and prime samples are in moderP.' ‘ e request, at our quotations; otherwise the trade is voll dull. bine° we last wrote a few parcels have arrived from Germany and Portugal. Yorkshire Regents 4ss to 55s per ton. Flukes Rocks Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 36s to 55s „ Rocks .... tent and Essex Regents SEEDS. There was a dull inquiry for cloverseed, and the quota tions were almost nominal. Linseed and rapeseed were in slow request, and prices had a downward tendency. Other sends commanded a fair business on former terms. The transactions in cakes have been on a limited scale, yet no change took place in the cu: Turntp,Whlte,p.bus.lls to 14s Swede --8 --s Mustard, Brown lOB 13s White, Tares, Spring...•4s Od 4s 6d Oldper quarter - b —8 Canary, per quarter Qs 6:s Nye grass, new 22s 24s Clover, Red Rug., ot 42s 72s White Foreign Red 4os 48s White sis 683 Trefoil, new 248 27s - encies. Carraway 22s 26s Coriander .... l2s 16s Henapseed, per qr 44s 46s Linseed,Eng,sowing 76s 78s Crushing Baltic Odessa —s ---8 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £9 100.£10 10s Foreign,— ~ £9 10s XlO Os Rape Cakes,p tona Os £6 Os Rapeseed, new,pr car 6.48 ps WOOL, The second series of public sales of colonial wool for the year commenced on Thursday last. The arrivals since the close of last sale amount to 103,763 bales, consisting of From N. S. Wales and Queensland 15,281 bales. „ Victoria .................. 46,958 „ „ Tasmania ................ 1,588 „ South Australia ..... ~..... 16,470 „ f f West Australia .......... 2,079 „ „ New Zealand ............ 8,864 „ „ Cape .................... 12,523 „ Total .............. 103,764 bales. The attendance of home buyers up to the present time has Per Blbs.to s s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme. S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Largo orse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 6 2 5 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 40 4 4 Small porkers 42 4 6 Lambs....6s 4d to 7s 4d, Suckling calves, 163 to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 203 to 25s each. TOTAL. SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Cows — Sheep and lambs 3,010 Sheep and lambs 22,640 I Calves Calves l5O , Pigs Pigs. 4BO 1862. Central Criminal Court--This Day. A common jury wa s sworn, and the Court proceeded with the trial of cases standing over from last session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day, MARLBOROUGH STREET. ALLEGED ROBBERY IN A CAB. — Margaret Mills, an unfortunate, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing from the person of Mr. James O'Brien, of 25, Newman street, Oxford-street, a leather bag containing £27105. in gold. The prosecutor said that about twelve the previous night he met the prisoner in Oxford-street, and get into a cab and went with her as far as Holborn-hill, when they got out and got into another cab, telling the driver to proceed to the Marble Arch. On reaching Marylebone-lane, the prisoner got out and wanted to get away, and this caused him to suspect something, and putting his hand into his trowsers' pocket he missed a leather bag containing £27 10s, which he felt was safe in his pocket when he first met the prisoner. Ho then called a constable and gave the prisoner in charge. Mr Knox asked the prosecutor whether he was quite sober. The prosecutor said he had been to two publichouses, and at one he had some stout and ale, and at tho other some brandy. The prisoner said she did not remember anything, as she had been driuking. She did not take the ,prosecutor's money. Job Elliott, 355 D, said the prosecutor was the worse for drink, but the prisoner was quite sober. The prosecutor charged the prisoner with stealing his bag and money, and said she had run down a court. Mr Knox asked what money was found on the prisoner, and the constable said only Bs. Bd. The prisoner said the prosecutor gm her that, which he did not deny. Mr Knox said it was just possible the prosecutor might have dropped th e b ag in the cab. He cou ld not detain the prisoner on the ev id ence, but he would advise the prose cutor to go to th e L ost Property Office at S cotland-yard p and give info rma ti on that the cabman might, if s.sible) be traced. The prosecutor had lost his money by his own folly, but the police would try and help him to recover it. Barns, the gaoler, said the prisoner could be found at any time if she was wanted. The prisoner was then discharged. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WM.—Henry Vincent, of 8, Husband-street, a sweep, was charged with violently as saulting his wife Mary, by striking her on the head with a he was calltd t o N o. Loosley, 46 C, sa id that at one o'clock yesterday morning prisoner's wife s mo th ered with blood, and unable to see, 8, Husband-street, where he found the He took her to the Middlesex Hospital, where she had her head dressed. She was unable to attend that morning. In answer to Mr. Rnox, the constable said the wife told him that her husband cut her head open with a can, while the prisoner said it was done with his fist. The poor woman, who was very ill, told Lim that she did not like to appear against the prisoner, who had assaulted her before, as, if he were sent to prison, she would have to go to the workhouse. He believed the wife was frightened to appear. w The prisoner said h e b ad bsen out drinking comfortably his wife, and he did not know what caused them to fall out, bat he believed she threw some water on him. Mr. xnox remanded the PriBolVrt ............... THAMES. ROIMERT AND DIIIJNICRNNESs ON BOARD SHIP.— Thomas Powell, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing sherry and ale on board the ship R eg i na , in the East India Dock, and being drunk on board The case was a very extraordinary one. Yesterday (Sunda3) evening. half-past 8 o'clock, a dock watchman, named Martin, saw a woman, a man, and 4 ohildren coming along the west quay of the East India dock. They were all drunk, and reel in g about. One of the children f e ll down and was senseless for some ti me . The party were aertC:slihwltifeg,e' and one of th e women t urne d the man his b rot h er, an d t h e were his off spr i ng. Clarke, a dock con. io t n a u k tto e it n oi o t ba o et e t td h h e l eit d tp o lre c i k soon w ne 0 stable,went on board th e ehi P , in the dock, and fon n d p r i soner lying under the cabin t able d ead drunk. On se arc hi ng th e lazarette under the cabin a c hisel was found on th e t o p o f a in bottles, and there wa s a b ottle of sherry cask of sherry with the neck off, on the top of anoth er cask conta i n i ng missing from anoth er . Th e place was in great confusi o n , a nd the cabin sm e lt o f s h err y c b a o s t k tl , es an o d f ale, nine There were 7 bottle s o f ale gone out of one bottles of sherry and ale, The prisoner ha d been on board th e R eg i na a t work for some time, and he was left on bo ar d yester d ay i n the absence of the captain and mates t o t a k e care of the ship and stores, The chisel found i n t h e lasarette was taken from the third mate's bunk , Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner 0 one months' im prisonment and hard labour. SHIPPING.-TRIS DAY. 111' MAGNETIC TELIGRAPR. Ystad—Agn es F raser , GRAVEIEND Mond a y M orn i ng. Arrived, May B—Vi sse rio, from Worcu m —R oland, from DEAL, Monday Morni ng . An A d r s r u iv n e d dT r ia e y nt , o_r, z voi m aitt N in Vo , rc fr u o m m . from Seville—Omen, from Dantsic. Anchored—Adelaide, from Bahia, for Bremen—Xolus, from Philadelphia, for Rotterdam. Passed—Conclops for Bombay—Jane, for Algoa Bay— Candidata, for Barbadoes—all from London —Austrian gunboat ilieehunci, from Gravesend, for the Downs, after pairing, SACRED ITARNONIO SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.— !Lindelas trea t c h ora l w o rk, "Israel in E g ypt," w ill be performed for the last time this season on Friday next, the 1 3th inst. M a d ame P are pa • Miss Banks, Madame Sainton- Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr, Weiss, and Mr. Santley will be the pri nc i pa l voca li sts. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS....at a meeting of the Council of ithi s C orpora ti on on Saturday, the 7th inst., the followi ng gentlemen were electe d mem b ers :— M r. J. Aids ridge, Kingston, Yeovil Mr. J. S. Bruce, Falkland House, Finchley; Mons. P. J. Jaeckel, the College, ton, M. -., Worthin g ; M r. J. Lan ' British and Foreign k ; School Society ; M r. H. Ne vini`3l3' Wordaley, Stourbridge ; Rev. J. W. T apper, Wood G. , een, Tottenham ; Dr. T. E. Watson, Eagle Hall, Southgate', —E. Od —s Oct 28,731 67 , 609 35,...L. 2 ..,,,,,,,,, 53561 to 58s ud to 40s3d to 43862 to 418 3d to —s Od —8 Oct —8 Od 832 1,327 1,219 699 1,012 7,700 76,015 115,171 75,Q9 71,558 1 611 104 20 279 645 93,('5' 116,530 93,467 78,272 83,761 54s 3d 578 3d 46s Oct 44s 3d 41s ed 114 , 40 g K ^ a" The May Sessions of the Central Criminal Court com menced this morning at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, and other civic authorities. The calendar consists of a list of 84 prisoners for trial. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The Reccrder, in delivering his charge, said be was happy to inform them that the calendar did Rot contain a very large list of prisoners for trial; and that none of the cases were of a very serious nature. There was a case in which a man had been committed for trial for unlaw fully wounding, but since that the person who had been wounded had died, and the case would be presented before them as one of manslaughter; and if they were satisfied that the death was occasioned by the wound, it would be their duty to return a true bill. There was also another case of manslaughter, in which a person who prat• tised and represented himsel as a surgeon, not being, duly qualified, was charged with having caused the death of the deceased for want of proper knowledge and skill, and gross ignorance. It appeared that he had operated on the deceased for a ease of the hip joint, from the effects of which he died. If they were satisfied that the prisoner was not a practical and proFerly qualified surgeon, and death ensued from his want of skill, it would be their duty to return a true bill. Having referred to a ease in which a person was charged with an attempt at rape en a young girl, the Re corder said the only other case he thought it necessary to make any observation on was :a case in which two boys were charged with arson in setting fire to chattels in a dwel ling house. It appeared the prisoners had put some lighted paper in the letter box at the prosecutor's house, and set fire to a number of letters. When the fire was discovered it was found that the lighted paper put into the box was part of an old newspaper, the other portions of which had been traced to have been in possession of the prisoner. The jury would have all the facts before them, and if the evidence showed a prima facie case against the prisoner, it would be their duty to send the case for further enquiry before the petit jury. There was no other case in which it would be necessary to make any observations, and he wouli therefore at once dismiss them to their duties. The Grand Jury having retired, 1850. 1851 1803 leaving the gun, and the balls, spreading into a circle, tell with murderous effect upon men at 400 and 500 yards, and I from the shape of Mr. Whitworth's hexagon rifling it is said he cannot use this missile with effect. Such a deficiency —if it really exists—is not of serious moment; but still it would be a deficiency, and as such, no doubt, recorded against the gun. Using time fuzes at such a range as 450 yards appeared to be objectionable. In time fuzes a mis calculation of the time of bursting, even such an infinitesi mal miscalculation as 1-10th of a second would be sufficient to make the shell burst 40 yards too soon or too late. When such fractional nicety is required it is like expecting im possibilities to suppose that men in the hurry and hot blood of action, with the enemy as close upon them as 450 yards, would be able to cut fuzees with such minute accuracy as to allow for 10ths of seconds in ever varying distances. How it would be in action with no previous knowledge of the ranges was shown on Friday at Shoeburyness, where, with perfect knowledge of the range, with ample time, the most scrupulous care, and every scientific adjunct required to insure success, only one shell out of fiva burst precisely where it was wanted, right in front of the targets. In mak ing these remarks we wish most carefully to guard ourselves from being supposed to advance anything against either the principle or efficiency of Mr. Whitworth's time shell, of which it is not too much to say that it is the most perfect missile of the kind ever invented. The percussion shell of the Whitworth gun is far inferior to it, and, as compared with the general efficiency of Sir William's percussion shell may be pronounced almost a failure. As yet it has effected so little that on every occasion he can do so Mr. Whitworth prefers to use his time shell, and with very good reason, After the trisls at these targets were over, another test of endurance was made by firing 50 rounds of shot from each gun, which were then left to cool, and impressions taken of their interiors to show wear and tear of bore. It is only necessary to say that these impressions proved that the guns are wearing, though we are not yet in possession of such authentic information as to state which has worn most. In our account of the experiments made at Shoebur;n - ess on Friday the merit of Captain Palliser's plan of fastening armour-bolts was inadvertently ascribed to his brother. The praise is due to Captain William Palliser, of the 18th Hussars. IRELAND, DUBLIN, May 7. The affliction of Lady Fitzgerald and her family has been aggravated by a barbarous outrage on the part of the peasantry. The popular feeling, it seems, did not go with the verdict of the jury, and the impression that prevailed among the lower classes was that the suicide of Sir Thomas Fitz¢ gerald was deliberate and of malice prepense, with the avowed purpose of defrauding his creditors. Consequently, they thought that the verdict should have been simply that he was guilty of self-murder, and as such unworthy of Christian burial. This view is to be ascribed chiefly to an hereditary animosity to the family, dating from 1798, when the grandfather of the late baronet, by his atrocious cruelties to the insur gents, acquired the sobriquet of " The Flogger," by which he was long remembered in Tipperary. The Irish peasantry firmly believe in Providential retribution incases of oppression, and, if the wrong doer escapes in this life, they have no doubt that his descendants will be punished in his stead. Th• his tory of this family seems to have confirmed the po pular belief, for it has suffered several heavy calami ties, and all have been regarded as divine judg ments. The son of " the Flogger," who inherited his titles and estates, was drowned coming from Liver pool in the Nimrod. A young son of the suicide hanged himself some years ago from a nail stuck in the wall, to which he fastened a cord. According to the popular story, the boy was showing to his little sister and brother how his grandfather used to hang the rebels. Believing, however, that the verdict should have been filo de-se, a mob of strangers assembled in the churchyard of Ballygriffin on Saturday even ing, and filled the grave with stones. The funeral procession was as private as possible, the remains being followed only by a few relatives and friends. They were met by the mob at the gate, expressing in such menacing terms their determination that the corpse of the suicide should not enter that con• secreted ground, that all remonstrances and en treaties were unavailing ; and the coffin had to be borne back to the house. The Rev. Mr. Ryan, P.P., exerted himself to calm the excitement of the people; and next day he addressed them from the altar, strongly condemning their conduct. On Monday morning the interment took place under the protection of a strong body of constabulary 150 in number. A guard remains upon the grave day and night. The funeral service was read by the Rev. J. M, Poole, rector of the parish. The Rev. Mr. Ryan and his curate, Mr. O'Connor, were present, and exhorted the people not to disturb the remains just committed to the 1864. SPORTING NOTES. A FRESH MAN. CITY BETTING—SATURDAY. GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Major (taken) Bto 1 agst Wingrave (taken) Bto 1 agst Caller Ou (taken) 10 to 1 agst Greville (taken) 10 to 1 agst King Charming (taken) 10 to 1 agst Trust (taken) 15 to 1 agst Fontenoy (taken) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst General Peel (offered) 15 to 1 agst Paris (taken) 20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Ely (taken) 25 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 50 to 1 agst Major (offered) Anecdotal Recollections of Meyerbeer, The death of the great 111 eyerbeer, says the Court Journal, has come upon the musical world like a thunder-clap in the midst of a brilliant summer day. Not one amongst us, not even those whe stood around his bed an hoar before the sad event took place, had the smallest idea that death could be so near. We, restless, pre-occupied with great anti.. cipations as usual, only a few days ago. He was relating, with sparkling eyes, vivid voice and gesture, all the delight he had experienced while listening to Rossini's Mass at Pillet Will's soiree. We were contemplating with tie most intense admiration all the play and varied expression of his thin but energetic countenance. The certainty of long life and continued labour was inscribed in every line of that marked forehead ; and as he followed in memory the musical phrase which had pleased him most, waving his finger in the air, and humming the notes with delight, so greatly was he carried away by his enthusiasm, that he actually paused to clap his hands at the ingenious turn of one of the phrases. "Ce diable de Rossini !" ex claimed he as he threw himself back in his arm chair gathering the folds of his dressing-gown over his thin legs ; " who ever would have imagined he would become one of the Fathers of our musical Church ?" The life led by the great composer for the last 20 years has been that of a studious Benedictine monk. He was wont to rise at six, and to work without ceasing until noon, seldom taking other nourishment than a cup of coffee, which his servant used to place on the edge of the piano without a word, merely contenting himself with rattling the spoon and cup until it attracted an impatient nod from the composer, thus forcibly arrested in his com binations. Sometimes the coffee would, however, remain untouched the whole day long, and then the despair of the attendant would be at its height. He would enter under every pretext—to stir the fire, to open the window, to consult the clock—and each time would rattle the cup and saucer as if by acci dent, flying from the room in alarm at Meyerbeer's impatient gesture when roused from his deep study. He never took more than one meal a day, and that was late. It was not till this had been accomplished that he sought for amusement or distraction in the world. He was a most assiduous frequenter of the Opera, never missing a single representation. For Italian. music he cared but little, declaring that it was to German science what the graceful painting of Watteau is to the stupendous compositions of Rubens. His impression of sudden death and his dread of being buried alive must have been vivid. In a letter he begs than his veins may be opened, evidently with a view of preventing a catastrophe upon which he was wont to dwell with great horror, and not long ago he was arguing with great interest upon the most probab'e sensations expe4 rienced by an individual on first awaking from the lethargy during which he has been buried, and finding himself in the solitude and darkness of the tomb. The document bears no date, and as the clause above mentioned Is added subsequently to the rest, it is possible that it may have been the result of reflections induced by the conversation alluded to. Meyerbeer's fortune amounted to £20,000 per annum. Ia Berlin his family occupies the finest position; but even there, while his wife and daughters, from their fortune and station, were receiving the elite of society in his splendid mansion, he was content to inhabit a small set of rooms upon the uppermost story, where—his only companions his harpsichord and music-desk—he planned and rehearsed the vast musical concep tions which have rendered his name celebrated throughout the world. His will not being known as yet, anticipations are free, and the general im pressious inParis is that he has left the copywright of the " Afriosine" to the Conservatoire of Paris. France was the country of his adoption, and he loved to be mentioned as the " great German com poser of Freno music." By a singular contradic tion of all preconceived ideas, he always declared that in Paris alone could an opera be rehearsed with sufficient perseverance to enable it to be pro. duced before the public with justice to theooroposer, AUSTRIA AND THE POLES.—" Austria," says the Siecle, "continues to give up to Russia the Poles who take been instructed refuge in Galicia, but those extraditions no longer occur at agents—the th kingdom, place and the hour Russians a twshaiyt having ; a.: r the prey . . Brody, where facts of that nature e xcite general indigna .been previously informed of Lion; the prisoners are sent off through small villages on Would be thus driven notth e frontier. n g t i i v e e r .n pTthheerefugees Austrian ai 2 .auteheotiryititeosßhizi an Poles are taken to the frontier and forced to enter the into their nets. This i s not called giving up, but removing Poles were no longer and thus the semi-official o rg an, the General Correspois-: was ena bled to dance, s ays that in the Senate he "owns nine of given up to the Russians." PRESIDENT LINCOLN. AND THE SENATE.—The asked a gentleman; to whom the President was tPhreesseindaetnorts and one half of another," " Who owns the s o :k r i h ag alf .. ?;; Henry AP ilson, of Massachusetts," replied the c hi e f magistrates. beforegoing onbreakfast; after i t ;" Wilson is for me ," says the President in 1 o r v a e t s h m e roe likeg a in pie m i t ee during while t h his digestion hours which he he spends visiting the various departments and asking kr places and pat ronage; and i s bi tterly my enemy from 7 every evening until he goes to bed, drops asleep, and com mences snoring. Wilson is carrying water on . both shoul ders, but I guess he'll get a wetting, and soil his clothes before he gets through."—New York Gerald. " Considerable agitation," observes the Debata, " still prevails in the United Principalities. A. deep disaccord exists between Prince Couza's Ministry and the Legislative Chamber. The Assembly has refused to grant eight millions of piastres for the formation of a camp on the banks of the Seretb, and yet the Ministry has not re signed: Such a critical situation cannot be pro longed for any length of time." The Botschdafter, of Vienna, in speaking of England and her conduct relative to the Danish question, declares that British policy no longer consists of wise and mature combinations, but of national fancies and momentary caprices." The Austrzan Gazette in its turn declares that the con. duct of EnOand is inexplicable, and that her un bounded desire for peace leads her to acts which are the greatest obstacle to it. Although all the sporting writers failed to predict the winner of the Chester Cup, after having selected all the favourites, besides several others, to beat the field, it affords me - great gratification that my only selected, Little Stag, ob.. tained the second situation. He was at 12 to 1 last Mon day, when my letter appeared in the Sun, so that those who backed him to win and for a place cannot complain of my advice. It is most absurd for handicappers to give old horses the same weight as three-year-olds. The York Spring Meeting commences to-morrow. For the Craven Stakes Little Stag has only to put in an ap. pearance to carry it off. In his absence, either Antoinette or Donnybrook will win. The Great Northern Handicap will likely be contested by a large field. King Charming, one of the dead-heaters for the Metropolitan, I do not ex. pcct will see the starter. Major, the other dead-heater, will nearly win. Wingrave, from his running with Stradella and Isoline, must be very dangerous. East Lanca shire, from his formward position in the Chestsr Cup, is bound to run well. Pontenoy, it is said, will not stay the distance, but I have a different opiniun, and think if he does not win ho is almost certain to get a place, Greville is another that must not be despised. Guerilla is a good sound horse, but I expect Wingrave will beat him again. Dr. Rooke is a great good.looking colt, with fine speed, and if he can stay the course, he will nearly wi n . The winner, I expect, will turn up in either Wingrave, Major, or East Lancashire. The Flying Dutchman's Handicap will be only a canter for Little Stag, , 5